GLENIE, JAMES.

The History of Gunnery, with a new Method of deriving the Theory of Projectiles in Vacuo, from the properties of the Square of the Rhombus.

Edinburgh, Balfour, Cadell, Nourse, 1776. Contemp. hcalf. Raised bands. Upper 2 compartments repaired. Scratches to frontcover. Stamp on title-page. VIII,163 pp., 2 folded engraved plates. Internally clean, on good paper.

First edition. The Scottich mathematician, James Glenie is well known for many new geometrical constructions and proofs, a novel demonstration of the binomial theorem, and an alternative approach to the differential calculus.

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